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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the exceedingly-crumbly dept.

Phys.org:

To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state and local governments rely on fuel taxes, which raise more than US$80 billion a year and pay for around three-quarters of what the U.S. spends on building new roads and maintaining them.

I recently purchased an electric car, the Tesla Model 3. While swerving down a particularly rutted highway in New York, the economist in me began to wonder, what will happen to the roads as fewer and fewer cars run on gasoline? Who will pay to fix the streets?

Will toll roads become universal to bridge the funding gap?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @08:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @08:12AM (#807511)

    Ya load sixteen khallows, and whadda ya get? Another day older, and deeper in confusion. O Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I cain't go, I owe my soul to the Company Store!

    Wow, just like the khallow! Or sixteens of hims.